Personalized Grit Lab Report
Hi VICENTE,
Welcome to your personalized Grit Lab report!
We will go week by week, reviewing everything you have told us through Poll Everywhere.
We hope this will help you reflect on what you learned and experienced during Grit Lab.
Here's how you started. On week one, after learning the basics of grit:
You rated your passion as Stage 2: I have 2 or 3 emerging interests but am unsure how to figure out which one to pursue
...and your perseverance as Stage 4: Other people would tell you that I hold myself to a standard that is higher than what is explicitly asked of me.
Here's a graph:
Then, you learned about goal setting, planning, and deliberate practice.
You established a wish, imagined its associated outcome, identified potential personal obstacles, and then planned accordingly, using implementation intentions.
Did it go according to plan?
And here is how much you learned
In week four, we discussed feedback.
You told us that you felt "Defensive" when receiving negative feedback,
...and "Motivated" when recieveing positive feedback.
We then turned to learning about stress.
In week 5, you reported feeling "a moderate amount" of stress in your life right now, the primary source of it being pandemic, academics.
We also talked about adversity and failure.
Although related, adversity and failure are different:
Adversity happens to us, whereas failure is something for which we are generally more responsible.
Perhaps that is why you said that failure had made you feel Impostor.
However, how we interpret stress and failure matters...
You said that you believe it is false that the effects of stress are negative and should be avoided,
...and that it is true that stress facilitates learning and growth.
Interestingly, research has found that people who believe that stress can facilitate learning and growth experience enhanced performance, well-being and health.
On week six, we talked about mentors
...you said for you, your most important mentor was parent.
Here's how you described him or her:
You also wrote a gratitude letter to a friend. Do you remember what you said and how it made you feel?
On week eight, we talked about interest.
You saw this picture.
You rated it as
9/10 in enjoyment,
7/10 in interestingness, and
4/10 in novelty.
What about Francis Bacon's Head Surrounded by Sides of Beef?
